PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe is trying to reclaim waning support in the region as he pushes for an early election which he wants later this year. He is hoping to bounce back from his recent setbacks on the diplomatic front. The recent visit to Zimbabwe by Mal

SPORTS Minister Chishimba Kambwili has said the boxing fight between Zambian champion boxer Esther Phiri and her Zimbabwean opponent Monalisa Sibanda will take place on February 17, 2012. Meanwhile, Oriental Quarries Boxing Promotions (OQBP), yesterday u

To prosecute or not to prosecute this is the daunting task which is bestowed on the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) whenever he is required to issue a consent. The DPP has to determine whether there is enough ground for any criminal agency to prose

IT is nearly four months since the Patriotic Front took over the reigns of Government and, as widely anticipated, the country has witnessed a radical departure in the style of governance which has given a fresh impetus to the crusade against corruption.

Chiluba’s death, which citizens first learnt of through Twitter, shocked the nation which only three years before, had buried a sitting president, Levy Mwanawasa who died in France after collapsing in Egypt while on international duty. Chiluba’s death be

WHAT goes round comes round! This is exactly what has happened to the opposition MMD as regards their crying foul over the decision by the Patriotic Front (PF) Government to appoint seven of its Members of Parliament (MPs) as deputy ministers. It's like

MMD Chipata Central constituency Member of Parliament (MP) Reuben Mtolo says he will lobby the Government to make the Chipata-Mchinji railway line operational. The project was revitalised in 2006 by the late president Levy Mwanawasa and officially commis

THE Government is aware of increased shortages of doctors and nurses, especially in rural areas and has this year made a provision to recruit 2,500 health workers. Most of those to be employed will be deployed in areas with critical manpower shortage. He

PRESIDENT Michael Sata yesterday said the differences he had with Malawian President Bingu Wa Mutharika have been resolved following the 45-minute meeting he held with Malawi's retired president Bakili Muluzi. President Sata told journalists at State Hou

CHINA has undertaken to restock the newly-constructed Levy Mwanawasa General Hospital in Lusaka with advanced medical equipment and supplies at a cost of K7.9 billion (10 million Yuan). Finance and National Planning Minister, Alexander Chikwanda and Chin

FORMER Malawian President, Bakili Muluzi has arrived in the country on a private visit. Dr Muluzi arrived at the Kenneth Kaunda International Airport at 11:00 hours yesterday. The former president is today expected to visit the families of the late presi

Deposed Zambian league champions Zesco United are seriously considering a move to the newly-built 45,000 capacity Levy Mwanawasa Stadium in Ndola. The Ndola-based three-time league champions currently play their home games at the 7,000 capacity Trade Fa

It is difficult to fault Khama on African democracy When silent diplomacy was in vogue in SADC on the Zimbabwean political fiasco, where Robert Mugabe and his ZANU-PF was and, still is, harassing and terrorising the population and killing rivals in th

"Great men make great blunders," Sir Winston Churchill, the legendary former British premier, once made this political assertion. And he was probably dead right. But following the deaths of former presidents Frederick Chiluba and Levy Mwanawasa, quest

THE hand-over of the US$65 million Levy Mwanawasa Stadium in Ndola by the Chinese to the Zambian Government was yesterday deferred to a later date. And as it became apparent that there would be no hand-over ceremony, journalists from the public and priva

THE $65 million Levy Mwanawasa Stadium in Ndola will finally be handed-over to the Zambian Government tomorrow. Sports Minister, Fackson Shamenda said in an interview in Lusaka yesterday that Anhui Foreign Economic Construction Company (AFECC) would hand

MUTUAL reverence for individual sovereignty and upholding the brotherly ties -this is the common ground on which all diplomatic relations between countries hinge on. In the words of Chinese ambassador to Zambia Zhou Yuxiao, diplomatic relations should br

SEVERAL former construction workers at the Levy Mwanawasa Stadium in Ndola yesterday staged a protest, demanding that Government pays them their terminal benefits. The ex-employees assembled at the stadium site before walking to the Copperbelt Provincial